University of Westminster: DS16_The Urban Animal.
This year I am looking at the relationship between architecture and the animal world. We were asked to keep a pet. I chose to keep Eisenia Fetida or Red worms as they are more commonly known. These worms live in my kitchen in a box and they eat my organic food waste producing a rich fertilser for future food growing. This blog is a all about that process.

Wednesday, 22 November 2006

Are they on a diet?

I’m finding that the food i'm giving the worms isn’t being consumed nearly as quickly as I imagined. Perhaps its because it is not chopped up fine enough (therefore slower digestion) or maybe some of the food is just too hard for them to crunch down quickly? Either way i'm reluctant to keep loading waste into the bin if its just going to sit there and not be decomposed. Maybe I will feed once or twice a week rather than every day and see how it goes.